Michael Asimow teaches Contracts and Law and Popular Culture. Michael was previously a long-term visiting professor at Stanford Law School. Prior to that he taught at UCLA Law School and he is a professor of law emeritus at UCLA.
At UCLA, he received both the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the School of Law’s Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1994, he received the Fredric P. Sutherland Award recognizing public service contributions by a faculty member.
Asimow teaches contracts, administrative law, income tax, and law and popular culture. In the area of administrative law, he co-authored a course book, State and Federal Administrative Law (5th ed., 2020) (with Ronald M. Levin). He co-authored the Rutter Group treatise California Practice Guide--Administrative Law. Asimow has written numerous articles on state and federal administrative law as well as comparative administrative law. He is a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States.
In the field of law and popular culture, Asimow published Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book (3rd ed., 2020) (with Jessica Silbey). In addition, he co-authored Real to Reel: Truth and Trickery in Courtroom Movies (2021) (with Paul Bergman), a book about courtroom movies of the past and present. He has also published numerous articles on lawyers, law firms, and legal ethics in the movies.
Books
Real to Reel: Truth and Trickery in Courtroom Movies with Paul Bergman. Vandeplas (2021)
Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book with Jessica Silbey. 3 ed. Vandeplas (2020)
State and Federal Administrative Law with Ronald Levin. 5 ed. West (2020)
Sourcebook of Federal Administrative Adjudication Outside the Administrative Procedure Act. Administrative Conference of the United States (2019)
Administrative law (The Rutter Group, California practice guide). with Bolz, Strumwasser, Aspinwall, and Tuleja. Rutter Group (2018)
A Guide to Federal Agency Adjudication. Editor and co-author. 2 ed. American Bar Assoc. (2012)
California Administrative Law with Marsha Cohen. West (2001)
Chapters
A Comparative Approach to Administrative Adjudication in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law. Oxford University Press (2021)
Teaching Law and Popular Culture in Teaching Law with Popular Culture. Carolina Academic Press (2019)
A Genre Study of Prosecutors and Criminal Defense Lawyers in American Movies and Television in Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media and Popular Culture. Oxford University Press (2018)
Articles
Ex Ante Administrative Review of the Legality of Regulations: A Comparative Approach, with Bocksang, Cirotteau, Dotan, Mahboubi, and Perroud, 68 American Journal of Comparative Law 332 (2020)
The Mirror and the Lamp: Teaching Law and Popular Culture, 68 Journal of Legal Education 115 (2019) (article in symposium on “Visual Images and Popular Culture in Legal Education” edited by Michael Asimow & Ticien Sassoubre)
Best Practices for Evidentiary Hearings Outside the Administrative Procedure Act, 26 George Mason L. Rev. 923 (2018)
Hired Guns and Ministers of Justice: The Role of Government Attorneys in the US and Israel, 49 Israel L. Review 3 (2016)
Open and Closed Judicial Review of Agency Action: The Conflicting US and Israeli Approaches, 64 American Journal of Comparative Law 521 (2016)